On the sidelines of the legislative elections in Germany, the Pussy Riot group in a spectacle to support Ukraine

Yellow and blue hoods Like the Ukrainian flag, the Russian Punk dissident Punk group Pussy Riot played on Saturday during a pro-Ukraine demonstration in Berlin, organized on the eve of the German legislative elections. The organizers of the event, dissident Russians, called on the winner of the elections to continue supporting kyiv.

Friedrich Merz conservatives on Sunday, February 23, clearly won the legislative elections on Sunday in Germany. The election also marks an unprecedented progression of the extreme right in a tense context, where Germany and Europe are struck by the shattering announcements of the administration of Donald Trump on the war in Ukraine.

During his show on Saturday, Pussy Riot put in the spotlight Boutcha, a Ukrainian city where the Russian forces were accused of having committed a massacre against the civilian population. But also “The howls of Marioupol »port city that experienced a terrible Russian seat.

The protest group wore t-shirts with the registration “Support Ukraine”. The most famous action of Pussy Riot dates back to February 2012 when several members had sang a “punk prayer” against Vladimir Putin in a Moscow cathedral. Three members of the group had been sentenced in August 2012 to two years of camp in August 2012, notably for “Hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”.

Some 200 people braved the Berlin winter cold on Saturday to attend the Punk group show at the famous Brandenburg Porte, chanting “No to war” in Russian. The crowd also listened to Kevin Lick, German-Russian released last year from a Russian prison following a massive exchange of prisoners with Westerners. Accused of betrayal, the one who had been arrested at the age of 17 judged on Saturday that peace talks without Ukraine were “Unacceptable and dangerous”.

Many demonstrators sported signs against the alternative far right party for Germany (AFD) and the leftist populist party BSW, both of which criticized Germany’s military support to Ukraine. “Those who vote for Putin’s friends vote for the fall of Europe”could we read on a sign where the names of the two parties were bifted with a cross.

“As a Russian citizen, it is important for me to be there and to show that I am against the Russian regime”commented a 36 -year -old protester, Vyacheslav, who did not wish to give his name. Germany was the second contributor to help Ukraine behind the United States, under the outgoing government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.